Protuberance

Ivelin Iliev (Protuberance) is born in a town called Isperih, north east part of Bulgaria. Back in the early 90’s, his first musical influence were old-school hip hop beats and, more specifically, bands like House of Pain and Cypress Hill. In the later 90’s he heard Liam Howlett's brainchild project The Prodigy. At that same time the techno wave in Bulgaria has already begun to grow rapidly. The birth of techno culture in Bulgaria marked his music passion for Electronic Music. He got exposed to and started listening to all kinds of electronic music - Progressive Trance, Hardcore Techno, Experimental Electronic, IDM and Deep Ambient. The early works of The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Josh Wink, Aphex Twin, FSOL, Autechre and numerous others have inspired him to become more than just a “fan”. In early 2000, at age of 17, he started organizing underground techno parties with his closest friends and mixing music became more than just a hobby. Soon enough Ivelin started to create and produce deep and atmospheric soundscapes with hypnotic experimental techno, break-beats and IDM elements. His musical approach is to combine, experiment with different techniques and styles, creating his own recognizable and unique palette of space sound.